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18-letter words containing e, y, t

  • benzyl thiocyanate — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 7 NS, used as an insecticide.
  • berkeley softworks — (company)   The company that wrote Graffiti and a similar scheme for the Commodore 64 (made it very Macintosh-like) and the Commodore 128 (which could multitask).
  • bernard montgomery — Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein ("Monty") 1887–1976, British field marshal: World War II commander of British 8th Army in Africa and Europe.
  • beta-naphthylamine — a white to reddish, crystalline, water-soluble, extremely toxic solid, C 10 H 9 N, used chiefly in the manufacture of azo dyes.
  • betsy griscom ross — Betsy Griscom [gris-kuh m] /ˈgrɪs kəm/ (Show IPA), 1752–1836, maker of the first U.S. flag.
  • between you and me — in the space separating (two points, objects, etc.): between New York and Chicago.
  • beyond one's depth — in water deeper than one is tall
  • bilateral symmetry — the property of an organism or part of an organism such that, if cut in only one plane, the two cut halves are mirror images of each other
  • biological therapy — biotherapy
  • biz-core stability — (security)   Internet security products which secure the business core.
  • bloggs family, the — An imaginary family consisting of Fred and Mary Bloggs and their children. Used as a standard example in knowledge representation to show the difference between extensional and intensional objects. For example, every occurrence of "Fred Bloggs" is the same unique person, whereas occurrences of "person" may refer to different people. Members of the Bloggs family have been known to pop up in bizarre places such as the DEC Telephone Directory. Compare Mbogo, Dr. Fred.
  • bobo the webmonkey — (web)   What B1FF was to BITNET users, Bobo the Webmonkey is to webmonkeys - the mythical prototype of incompetent web designers everywhere. In fact, Bobo may be what B1FF became when he grew up. Bobo knows about HTML only what he has learned from viewing the source of other people's Web pages. Bobo doesn't know what a MIME type is, even though someone gave him a hardcopy of the FOLDOC entry for it. Bobo may have used an HTML code validator http://validator.w3.org/ before, but isn't sure. Bobo doesn't know what the difference between GIF and JPEG is. He thinks PNG is a foreign country. All the pages Bobo has designed say "Welcome to [organisation] online!" at the top, and say "click here!" at least three times per page. Bobo has used Photoshop before; he doesn't understand why people keep asking if he's ever been tested for color-blindness. Bobo never got that "its" / "it's" distinction real clear, as you can tell from his pages. Bobo likes .
  • boole's inequality — the theorem that the probability of several events occurring is less than or equal to the sum of the probabilities of each event occurring.
  • borax pentahydrate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 B 4 O 7 ⋅5H 2 O, used chiefly for killing weeds, as a water softener, and as a disinfectant and deodorizing agent.
  • boundedly complete — (theory)   (Or "consistently complete") In domain theory, a complete partial order is boundedly complete if every bounded subset has a least upper bound.
  • bounty-fed farmers — farmers who benefit from subsidies
  • breach of security — an act that violates a country, area, or building's security measures
  • briquet's syndrome — somatization disorder.
  • byte-code compiler — (programming, tool)   A compiler which outputs a program in some kind of byte-code. Compare: byte-code interpreter.
  • casualty insurance — insurance providing coverage against accident and property damages, as automobile, theft, liability, and explosion insurance, but not including life insurance, fire insurance, or marine insurance.
  • cat's cry syndrome — a complex of congenital malformations in human infants caused by a chromosomal aberration and in which the infant emits a mewing cry.
  • catastrophe theory — a mathematical theory that classifies surfaces according to their form
  • catcher in the rye — a novel (1951) by J. D. Salinger.
  • center of symmetry — a point within a crystal through which any straight line extends to points on opposite surfaces of the crystal at equal distances.
  • characteristically — Also, characteristical. pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.
  • chartered surveyor — (in Britain) a surveyor who is registered with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors as having the qualifications, training, and experience to satisfy their professional requirements
  • chebyshev equation — Tchebycheff equation.
  • chrétien de troyes — 12th century, French poet, who wrote the five Arthurian romances Erec; Cligès; Lancelot, le chevalier de la charette; Yvain, le chevalier au lion; and Perceval, le conte del Graal (?1155–?1190), the first courtly romances
  • circulatory system — the system concerned with the transport of blood and lymph, consisting of the heart, blood vessels, lymph vessels, etc
  • cognitive ethology — a branch of ethology concerned with the influence of conscious awareness and intention on the behaviour of an animal
  • color transparency — a positive color image photographically produced on transparent film or glass and viewed by transmitted light, usually by projection.
  • committed facility — an agreement by a bank to provide a customer with funds up to a specified limit at a specified rate of interest
  • commodity exchange — an exchange where commodities are traded
  • community language — a language spoken by members of a minority group or community within a majority language context
  • community medicine — medical services for a particular area
  • community property — the joint ownership of the property of a husband and wife
  • complementary base — either of the nucleotide bases linked by a hydrogen bond on opposite strands of DNA or double-stranded RNA: guanine is the complementary base of cytosine, and adenine is the complementary base of thymine in DNA and of uracil in RNA.
  • complementary gene — one of a pair of genes, each from different loci, that together are required for the expression of a certain characteristic
  • complexity measure — (algorithm)   A quantity describing the complexity of a computation.
  • computer telephony — Computer Telephone Integration
  • conductivity water — water that has a conductivity of less than 0.043 × 10–6 S cm–1
  • conservative party — The Conservative Party is the main right-of-centre party in Britain.
  • constituency party — a branch of a political party operating within a constituency
  • continental system — French system.
  • cornell university — (body, education)   A US Ivy League University founded in 1868 by businessman Ezra Cornell and respected scholar Andrew Dickson White. Cornell includes thirteen colleges and schools. On the Ithaca campus are the seven undergraduate units and four graduate and professional units. The Medical College and the Graduate School of Medical Sciences are in New York City. Cornell has 13,300 undergraduates and 6,200 graduate and professional students. See also Concurrent ML, Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University Programming Language, CU-SeeMe, ISIS.
  • coronary care unit — a unit in a hospital dedicated to treating coronary heart disease
  • coronary-care unit — a specialized hospital unit for the early care and treatment of heart-attack patients. Abbreviation: CCU.
  • corporate identity — business brand
  • corpuscular theory — the theory, originally proposed by Newton, and revived with the development of the quantum theory, that light consists of a stream of particles
  • cot death syndrome — the unexplained sudden death of an infant during sleep
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